What are pianos made of?
Pianos take 7 things directly, among them lumber, adhesive, timber, pig iron, steel wire and copper wire. Trace them back and you pass 36 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Timber goes straight in
- Wool fleece goes straight in
- Water through adhesive
- Iron ore through pig iron
- Limestone through pig iron
- Air through pig iron
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Coal through pig iron, coke
- Copper ore through copper wire, copper
- Natural gas through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Dolomite through steel wire, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Quartz through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 31 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 20
Paraffin waxEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonNaphthaBenzenePropaneTolueneCharcoal